The mother of deceased Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula on Wednesday went on a sit-in protest in front of the main entrance of Hyderabad Central University after she was denied entry inside the campus to meet students who were injured in a police lathicharge yesterday.

A day after Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani claimed in Lok Sabha that no doctor was called in to revive Hyderabad University scholar Rohith Vemula after he committed suicide, Telangana Police has claimed that there was no delay in providing medical assistance to him though they faced tough resistance from the angry students of the university.

Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani's speech in Parliament on Wednesday (during a debate on Rohith Vemula's suicide and JNU row) is one of the most talked about news items on social media in the past 24 hours.

Two days after rallies were held at the Jantar Mantar in support of the sedition-accused JNU president Kanhaiya Kumar and his supporters for organising an event in support of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru, Delhi University Students' Union president Satender Awana has warned if no action is taken against those who had raised anti-India slogans he will shoot them.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday night reached Hyderabad Central University (HCU) to participate in a candlelight protest march by the students over Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide issue. He will sit on hunger strike on Saturday. Here are the latest updates:-

Just hours before Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's visit and amid continuing protests by students of University of Hyderabad over the suicide of a Dalit research scholar, interim Vice Chancellor Vipin Srivastava has gone on leave.

Stepping up the offensive on Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide issue, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday night reached Hyderabad Central University to participate in a candlelight protest march by the students.

SC and ST teachers of Hyderabad Central University will go on a hunger strike from Thursday to press their demand for the resignation of the Vice Chancellor and the in-charge VC in the wake of the suicide by Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Friday asked PM Narendra Modi to speak on the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula of the Hyderabad University before paying homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar in Lucknow.

After flagging off the Mahamana Superfast Express which will run from Varanasi to New Delhi, PM Modi on Friday arrived in Lucknow where he addressed the convocation ceremony of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University. PM Modi will also address Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Mahasabha in Lucknow later today. In Varanasi, he attended the distribution of e-rickshaws to differently-abled people and interacted with some of them.

The ongoing protests over the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula has intensified with ten professors belonging to the SC/ST community resigning from their administrative posts in the University of Hyderabad.

Despite Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani's attempt to defend the Centre over the suicide of a Dalit scholar, fierce protests continued on Wednesday by the students at the Hyderabad University as they even took to burning her effigy.

Three days after Hyderabad Central University's Dalit PhD scholar Rohith Vemula killed himself over alleged caste bias, the protests trigerred by his suicide continued across campuses in several cities on Wednesday.